[
UK
/ˈɪntʃəʊt/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈkoʊət/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈkoʊət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
a vague inchoate idea
incipient civil disorder
an incipient tumor
How To Use inchoate In A Sentence
- This is essentially the key question in deciding on the appropriate basis for the criminal responsibility required for commission of the inchoate offences of incitement, conspiracy and attempt.
- A native title ‘claim’ is not technically made for recompense for past loss, but for the recognition of current but inchoate rights.
- Writing between dabs on the forehead with a wet washcloth, she speaks of an ‘inchoate longing’ to visit paradise.
- The inchoate rage of Caliban is obvious just add mobile phones, but I am inclined not to grant the Great Awk tragic status, even of a diabolical kind. Brown Tragic ? He Wishes....
- The argument for allowing a defence of voluntary renunciation becomes stronger as the conduct element in the inchoate offences is taken further back from the occurrence of the harm.
- Because actualization is always possible, a sememe can be seen as an inchoate or future text, and a story as an expanded sememe in which a temporal dimension has been added to spatial syntagms.
- Their introduction to the United States began as a tantalizing but inchoate suggestion of opportunity.
- The other male characters in this book are denied such a fiery redemption, though they all have an inchoate sense that there is hope out there somewhere.
- The inchoate character of memory makes it difficult to know what is important about the past or, for that matter, what role the past plays in the present.
- All four had the inchoate desire to work in journalism when they applied to graduate school but felt clueless about how to get a serious job in journalism.